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Tuesday: Nutrition in age of obesity

With obesity and Type 2 diabetes considered national epidemics, nutrition professor Marjorie Freedman will talk about her research at the Cafe Scientifique, set for 6 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 9, at SRI International headquarters, located at Middlefield Road and Ringwood Avenue in Menlo Park.

Ms. Freedman, a food industry veteran and now an associate professor in food science at San Jose State University, will "decipher the updated federal guidelines and discuss her research on environmental correlates of obesity, portion size reduction, nutrition labeling, and food waste," according to Cafe Scientifique.